On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 11:00:15PM +0300, Reco wrote:
LSB was more than that. It was a set of standards declaring what you can find in your typical GNU/Linux system. LSB was always somewhat controversial when one tried to apply it to any non-rpm distribution (LSB mandated rpm as package manager), personal tastes (LSB mandated both Qt and GTK+ installed) or a common sense (not every server needs CUPS contrary to what they think). What's true - one does not need LSB if one writes free software. LSB was designed for all those proprietary software vendors in mind.
It also never worked, so it was never used, which meant it was really hard to convince people to spend effort to be compatible with something that had no real benefit.
Mike Stone
